Beyond Journals & Books

Discovering Doctoral Theses and

Conference Papers

James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.uk

Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Part 1 Conference

Papers

Key Resources• Conference alerts

- Current Awareness service for upcoming and recent

conferences

• Web of Science Conference Proceedings

- Will locate individual papers

• Proceedings First / Papers First

DemoConference Alerts

DemoWoS Conference Proceedings /

Proceedings & Papers First

Hands-on

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Part 2Theses

Theses in the UK

• Durham e-Theses

• Index to Theses- Bibliographic details

• EThOS- Full text available for immediate download

- Full text scanned for free

- Contact the institutional library to access

- Full text available, for a fee

DemoDurham e-theses /

eThos / Index to Theses

Theses at other institutions

- For theses where you asked to pay

to download from EThOS

- For those not available via EThOS- Use Durham Library’s Document Delivery Service

Hands-on

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International Theses

• Subscription resources

- Proquest Digital Dissertations

• Open access resources

- DART (European Portal)

- Trove Australian Theses Programme

- South African Theses and Dissertations

- OAIster

Hands-on

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Part 3 Your

Thesis

Thesis Submission at

Durham• You will have to submit an electronic copy of your

thesis in pdf format.

• E-theses are open access: available to anyone,

anywhere in the world

• Think about third-party copyright and use of research

data

• Consider what you want to do with your research after

you pass

e.g. embargo, creative commons licence

Image Credits[Slide 2] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by demonsub. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/66397367@N05/6993902269

[Slide 16] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Kirsty Andrews. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/47745961@N08/5169765739

[Slide 8, 13, 15] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by © Stuti Sakhalkar. Original at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/

[Slide 3] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Quinn Dombrowski. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/53326337@N00/6381059241

[Slide 9] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Alan Cleaver. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11121568@N06/4122176776/

[Slide 20] ‘Vitae®, © 2010 Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited‘ Available at www.vitae.ac.uk/rdf

Measuring

Researcher

DevelopmentVitae Researcher Development Framework [see image credits]